Cheek and the Olympics, Iraqi interpreters, Taleban, floods and Masekela
Good morning from the World Have Your Say embassy at TV Centre in West London..
Tomorrow, it will be exactly a year until the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, and an American Olympian, has called on his fellow athletes to highlight China's involvement in Sudan.
He wants medal winners in Beijing to use their time in the spotlight to say that China's arms and oil trading with Sudan are fuelling the killings and mass displacements in Sudan's Darfur region.
Cheek hopes to have 1,000 athletes bearing that message as they fly to the Games. He has already handed a 40,000-signature petition to the Chinese embassy in Washington calling on China to help save Darfur's civilian population. Cheek has already won an for his work on Darfur. We want to talk to Cheek and get your reaction to his calls.
A few weeks ago we covered the story of Denmark granting asylum to around 200 people who had worked as interpreters for the Danish forces in Iraq, or who were related to the interpreters.
Now Britain's Times newspaper has reported that senior Brtish army officers in Iraq have accused Britain of 91 Iraqi interperters and their families.
They want Britain to make arrangements for the Iraqis, whose lives are said to be at risk because of the work they have been doing, to be granted asylum in Britain. Would you like to return to the story?
On Monday the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, said during a visit to Washington that the Taleban were a .
What do you think of his statement? Are you in Afghanistan or would you like to hear the opinion of people who are there?
We may also hear more from the floods in South Asia today.
One of South Africa鈥檚 greatest musicians and a leading figure in the struggle against apartheid, , has said that he is no longer welcome as a performer in his own country.
The trumpeter says that many of the musicians whose voices became symbols of protest against white domination are finding it hard to get bookings in South Africa because the governing ANC is terrified of music as an agent of change.
Masekela, who is preforming at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, argues that mediocrity is being promoted in the arts in South Africa because music and theatre are seen as 鈥渃atalysts鈥 in the destruction of apartheid, and might equally shake confidence in the present regime.
We would like to talk to him.
And Massachusetts's in the United States is considering a bill to ban discrimination against overweight and unusually short people.
But not everyone is happy and some people are asking Do We Really Need A Law To Protect Fat Workers?
What do you think?
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